Species Details

ABH: 21.001

BF: 263

Family: Lyonetiidae

Subfamily: Lyonetiinae

Taxon: Lyonetia clerkella

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Apple Leaf-miner

Account: Common in hedgerows, gardens and orchards throughout much of the British Isles Larva mines leaves of Hawthorn, Apple, Wild Cherry, Bird Cherry, Birch, Cotoneaster and Rowan, causing sufficient damage to be a serious pest in some areas and can occasionally reach levels where localised economic damage is possible to fruit trees in Britain.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 8 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 5 Apr (2024) — 19 Oct (2002)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Betula pendula (Silver Birch), Betula sp. (a birch), Crataegus sp., Malus sp. (an apple), Prunus sp., Pyrus sp., Rosaceae.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/lyonetia-clerkella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 457

Individuals: 64

Earliest Year: 1994

Latest Year: 2025

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